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• Opportunity: A time or set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something.  Oxford Dictionary
• Opportunity: An occasion or situation that makes it possible to do something that you want to do or have to do, or the possibility of doing something.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Opportunity: A situation or condition favorable for attainment of a goal.  Dictionary.com
• Opportunity: A favorable juncture of circumstances.  Merriam Webster
• Proactiveness,  Resourcefulness,  Preparation

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Capitalising on opportunity is a key to success

• The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. Ayn Rand
• High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true. Robert H. Schuller
• Effective people are not problem-minded; they’re opportunity-minded. Stephen Covey
• The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one’s opportunities, and make the most of one’s resources. Vauvenargues
• The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli
• Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement–these are the martial virtues which must command success. Austin Phelps
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Don’t wait for opportunity to knock – go out and create it

• If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. Milton Berle
• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Francis Bacon
• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Francis Bacon
• Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them. Madame C. J. Walker
• The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success. Dale Carnegie
• Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. Orison Swett Marden
• To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. Bruce Lee
• Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced. Edward de Bono
• If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd. Edward de Bono
• You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. John B. Gough
• You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions. Ryan Blair
• I create opportunities; I don’t wait for opportunities to find me. Marelisa Fabrega
• I have found opportunities do not come to those who wait. They are captured by those who attack. William Danforth
• One of the great myths of business is that opportunity knocks. Opportunity does not knock on your door, you have to bang on the door yourself and keep knocking until you get in. Richard Branson
• If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. John B. Gough
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Be where the opportunities are

• If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river. Anchee Min
• Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. J. Brown, Jr
• Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen

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Nothing creates opportunity like the courage to be bold

• Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you. Robert Kiyosaki
• The greatest opportunities in life come with fear and risk. Miley Cyrus
• You create your opportunities by asking for them. Shakti Gawain
• Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. Gary Ryan Blair
• If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Long ago, mapmakers sketched dragons on maps as a sign to sailors that they would be entering unknown territory at their own risk. Some sailors took this sign literally and were afraid to venture on.  Others saw the dragons as a sign of opportunity, a door to virgin territory.  Similarly, each of us has a mental map of the world complete with dragons.  Where does fear hold you back? What dragons can you slay?  Roger von Oech
• Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in a harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out. Jackson Brown Jr.
• The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity. Victor Hugo
• Courage,  Boldness,  Risk taking

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Nothing creates opportunity like knowledge

• Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. Peter F. Drucker
• Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference. Claire Fagin
• As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked. Barbara Winder
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Nothing creates opportunity like creativity

• Creativity is the capacity within individuals to develop ideas for the purpose of solving problems and exploiting opportunities. Mark Batey
• Dissatisfaction can be beneficial to the creative process. Otherwise you lose the prod you need to spot potential problems and opportunities.  What are you dissatisfied about?  What are you going to do about it?  Roger von Oech
• Creativity is the capacity within individuals to develop ideas for the purpose of solving problems and exploiting opportunities. Mark Batey
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Nothing creates opportunity like curiosity

• Go around asking a lot of damn fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them. Clarence Birdseye
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Nothing creates opportunity like the right attitude

• A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. Earl Nightingale
• It isn’t life’s events, but how one reacts to them and the attitude that one has about them, that determines whether such events have a positive or negative effect on one’s life, whether they’re experienced as opportunity or as stress. David R. Hawkins
• What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it.  Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.  Sidlow Baxter
• Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life – facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential. John Amatt
• The difference between obstacles and opportunity is your outlook. Mark Sanborn
• Attitude,  Perception,  Interpretation

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Nothing creates opportunity like knowing what you want

• If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it. Arthur Golden
• If you really know what you want out of life, it’s amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out. John Goddard
• It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talent. Eric Hoffer
• We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. Eric Hoffer
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Nothing creates opportunity like doing what you love

• No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. All the opportunities in the world are waiting to be grasped by people who are in love with what they’re doing. Samuel Goldwyn
• Do what you love,  Passion

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Nothing creates opportunity like optimism

• The pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Reginald B. Mansell
• The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill
• A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Harry Truman
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Nothing creates opportunity like a growth mindset

• With a growth mindset, we embrace challenging opportunities because we know that we can only reach our highest potential by consistently playing at our edges and that the only failure is not really going for it and learning along the way. Carol S. Dweck
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Nothing bestows opportunity like freedom

• Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions. Kenneth Hildebrand
• Freedom is not only the opportunity to choose. Freedom is the strength of character to choose and to do what is right.    Matthew Kelly
• Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity – if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom. Dwight David Eisenhower
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Be vigilant because opportunities can be easy to miss

• Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. William Arthur Ward
• I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. Mark Twain
• I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dropped it carelessly, Ah!  I didn’t know, I held opportunity.  Hazel Lee
• Opportunities are seldom labeled. John A. Shedd
• Opportunities are often things you haven’t noticed the first time around. Catherine Deneuve
• When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. Boris Pasternak
• Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement–these are the martial virtues which must command success. Austin Phelps
• Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Maltbie Babcock
• Opportunity is rare, and wise people will never let it go by them. Bayard Taylor
• The opportunity that God sends does not wake up those who are asleep. Senegalese proverb

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Opportunities are everywhere if you look carefully enough

• This is an exciting world. It is cram packed with opportunity. Great moments await around every corner. Richard M. DeVos
• Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. Orison Swett Marden
• We all want to feel secure about our lives, our finances, and our future. Opportunities are everywhere and, contrary to public opinion, they knock more than once.  They actually knock so hard, they can knock you over.  But all too often, you aren’t paying attention when they arrive, or you’re intimidated and too afraid to embrace them.  You must remember that success is not a random event.  Rather, it arises as a direct result of circumstances meeting attitude and preparation.  Once you believe in yourself and have a positive plan of action, you can tap into a limitless potential of opportunity and  Lucinda Bassett

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Often, opportunity can be found where you least expect it

• Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.
• Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish. Ovid
• We are always surrounded by doors of opportunity. That’s the way life is. Often, opportunities do not come in packages wrapped in the colors we expected.  When an unexpected surprise happens, we refuse to see it and so we miss the opportunity.  Sometimes we are so focused on a goal far out in the future that we do not see what is right in front of us, or we get so busy hurrying and rushing around that we lose all perspective.  Anne Wilson Schaef
• As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen. Robert Brault

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Capitalise on the small opportunities, not just the big ones

• Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along. Hugh Allen
• As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it! Robert Collier
• Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.
• Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact. Danny Wallace
• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. Demosthenes
• Life is in the little things

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Life is a whirlwind of opportunities

• Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. Tony Robbins
• Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way. Bernie Siegel
• The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human. Henry Miller
• Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you. Osho
• All that appears in your life is a blessing, presenting you with a greater opportunity to define who you are, and to know yourself as that. Neale Donald Walsch
• I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken. Ram Dass
• Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them… To face very opportunity of life thoughtfully, and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-faced or disguised.  Maltbie D. Babcock
• If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page. Mark Houlahan
• Life is a whirlwind of many opportunities. Choose to embrace all of them in deepest gratitude. Michelle Cruz-Rosado
• The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity. Lewis Grizzard
• You will begin to see your life as an opportunity to share the special gift you alone can bestow upon the world. Deepak Chopra
• Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss. Eric Roth
• Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities. John Wicker
• The opportunities for enjoyment in your life are limitless. If you feel you are not experiencing enough joy, you have only yourself to blame. David E. Bresler

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The world is packed with opportunities

• The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car, a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little. Ben Sweetland
• The world is an abundant place. Abundant with opportunity, abundant with good fortune, abundant with ideas, and abundant with love. Reach into that abundance and take what is rightfully yours. It is your inheritance, gifted to you by God. Let yourself have it. Neale Donald Walsch
• This is an exciting world. It is cram packed with opportunity. Great moments await around every corner. Richard M. DeVos
• Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity. Simple Truths
• Let go of fear. The universe has an infinite supply of opportunity.  There is plenty to go around.  You may be surprised to see that something is coming your way right now! Richard Carlson
• Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance. Robert Brault
• The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered. Lincoln Steffens
• We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• No great person ever complains of want of opportunity. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Opportunity is so pervasive that often we miss it

• Many of us lose great opportunities in life by waiting to find sandalwood for our carvings, when they really lie hidden in the common logs that we burn. Orison Swett Marden
• Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen; people fairly breathe it and do not know it. Doc Sane

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Opportunity is in you

• Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. Orison Sweet Marden
• Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities. William Bridges
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Opportunity is right where you are

• Sometimes the greatest opportunities are right where you are. Look under your feet. Gena Livings
• The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. John Burroughs
• The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. John Burroughs
• I have learned that everything is an opportunity for spiritual enrichment. Marlo Morgan
• Opportunities are on every hand; what we need is, not a new chance, but clearness of vision to discern the chance which at this very hour is ours, if we recognize it. Katherine Krieger
• Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. Orison Swett Marden

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Each moment is an opportunity …

• The moment that you are living right now is a very important opportunity to make your life vividly alive. Dainin Katagiri
• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this. Henry David Thoreau
• To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. William James
• All life is yoga. Every moment is an opportunity for training the mind. Eknath Easwaran

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… if you live in the present

• By clinging to the past, you become unavailable to happiness and opportunity in the present.
• There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who can do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can give all our attention to the opportunity before us. Mark Van Doren
• The freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present not the past. Brian Koslow
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Each new day is an opportunity

• Each day brings with it the miracle of a new beginning. Many of the moments ahead will be marvelously disguised as ordinary days, but each one of us had the chance to make something extraordinary out of them. Douglas Pagels
• Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment–this day–is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day–each moment of this day–a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity. Dan Custer
• Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile. Grenville Kleiser
• Sometimes we let our thoughts of tomorrow take up too much of today. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present. This is the day of our opportunity, and we must grasp it. Thomas S. Monson
• Each golden sunrise ushers in new opportunities for those who retain faith in themselves, and keep their chins up… Meet the sunrise with confidence. Fill every golden minute with right thinking and worthwhile endeavor. Do this and there will be joy for you in each golden sunset. Alonzo Newton Benn
• Today is just another normal day full of miracles, gifts, and opportunities. Robert Holden, Ph.D.
• Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.
• Each day is a new opportunity. Yesterday is over and done. Today is the first day of my future. Louise L. Hay
• This bright, new day… complete with 24 hours of opportunities, choices, and attitudes… a perfectly matched set of 1440 minutes. This unique gift, this one day, cannot be exchanged, replaced or refunded. Handle with care. Make the most of it. There is only one to a customer.
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Tomorrow is an opportunity

• Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday. Brian Tracy
• The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity. Victor Hugo
• Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock. Woody Allen
• Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday. John Wayne

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Each new year is an opportunity

• We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” Edith Lovejoy Pierce
• Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day. Michael Josephson
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Opportunities are often disguised as hard work

• Problems are opportunities in work clothes. Henry J Kaiser
• The door to opportunity is always labeled ‘push’.
• Even when opportunity knocks a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and it looks like work. Thomas Edison
• We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison
• I think if you show up and you work hard and you’re straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I’m right. Cory Monteith
• Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. Ann Landers
• The door to opportunity is always labeled ‘push’.
• Hard work,  Effort,  Diligence

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Opportunities are often disguised as difficulties and challenges …

• A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Harry Truman
• Adversity often produces the unexpected opportunity. Look for it. Appreciate and utilize it. John Wooden
• An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity.
• Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. Winston Churchill
• In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein
• It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity. Frederick Phillips
• Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Napoleon Hill
• Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty. Thomas S. Monson
• We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. Charles R. Swindoll
• We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. Walt Kelly
• We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.
• I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. John D. Rockefeller
• All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity. Robert Kennedy
• Difficulties are opportunities to better things. They are stepping stones to greater experience. Perhaps someday you will be thankful for some failure in a particular direction. When one door closes another one opens… as a natural law it has to balance. Brian Adams
• Everyting negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise. Kobe Bryant
• If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness. Les Brown
• Sometimes when a roadblock forces you in a different direction, you cross paths with the opportunity of a lifetime.
• The person of low awareness sees everything in life in a dualistic perspective, either as a blessing or a curse. The master of life sees all things as opportunities. James Arthur Ray
• I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think and now I know a great secret of life for I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements, and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise. I will no longer be fooled by the garments they wear for mine eyes are open.  I will look beyond the cloth and I will not be deceived. Og Mandino
• Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person’s wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.  Epictetus
• Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown. Thomas F. Woodlock
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… for in difficulty and challenge lies the opportunity to learn and grow

• Face new challenges, seize new opportunities, test your resources against the unknown and in the process, discover your own unique potential. John Amatt
• Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability. Joe Brown
• Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Joseph Campbell
• With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. Wayne Dyer
• Everywhere we see adversity, the soul sees opportunity for our healing, expansion and enlightenment.
• Life’s ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Marsha Sinetar
• We need to embrace life’s challenges as opportunities to learn rather than as evidence that we’re an idiot. Brian Johnson
• Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it, the fear that lies behind it, and choose to learn with wisdom. Gary Zukav
• Life will provide challenges. It’s an intrinsic part of living. See the value in each challenge. It is an opportunity for growth and learning. Love challenges like an athlete loves training. Behram
• Embrace each and every thing that happens as an opportunity. When something “bad” happens ask, “What is the universe trying to tell me?” Often it’s saying stop, slow down, and come back to the present before your life zips passed you. And if it’s not saying that, it’s saying something. So listen. Accept situations as signs or opportunities, and remember that there is a purpose and a greater good to each. Look for the lesson rather than getting stuck in victim mode. Jackie Vecchio
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… and the opportunity to test your strength, ability and resolve

• Remember that self-pity breeds weakness. It steals your self-reliance. Every failure and every adversity you meet brings you a wonderful opportunity to test your own moral courage. You become a stronger person because of it. Napoleon Hill
• A challenge is an opportunity to prove your ability to yourself, and others. Joe Brown
• View the events you consider obstacles as perfect opportunities to test your resolve and find your purpose. Wayne Dyer
• When you look at life and its many chalenges as a test, or series of tests, you begin to see each issue you face as an opportunity to grow, a chance to roll with the punches. Richard Carlson
• Your path might be littered with obstacles, but it’s those challenges that define your character. Those challenges are opportunities in disguise. They are there to test your strength and your faith. It’s in those moments that we see our light truly shine.  Jonathan Mead
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There is opportunity in times of crisis

• I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way. Martha Beck
• The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger – but recognize the opportunity. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• When a life is too easy, there are fewer opportunities for genuine growth. Richard Carlson
• You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before. Rahm Emanuel
• A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn’t think we possessed. Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

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There is opportunity in uncertainty and even chaos

• Learn to see uncertainty as an adventure. It’s an opportunity to experience freshness. Create an appetite for it. Behram
• Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. Tom Barrett
• There are men who bloom in chaos. You call them heroes or villains, depending on which side wins the war, but until the battle call they are but normal men who long for action, who lust for the opportunity to throw off the routine of their normal lives like a cocoon and come into their own. Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan
• To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which “life” is made. Stephen Covey
• When nothing is sure, everything is possible. Margaret Drabble
• Chaos,  Let go of the need for certainty

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There is opportunity in change

• I welcome change, as it is full of opportunities. Louise L. Hay
• To be able to look at change as an opportunity to grow–that is the secret to being happy. Joan Lunden
• We can change our view of change by viewing the uncomfortable moments as an opportunity for tremendous transformation. Ariane de Bonvoisin
• Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. William Pollard
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There is opportunity in problems

• Cultivate the technique of seeing all problems as opportunities. Opportunities to be, and decide, Who You Really Are. Neale Donald Walsch
• Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. Hugh Miller
• Great opportunity is usually disguised as unsolvable problems. Gretchen G. Clement
• We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. Lee Iacocca
• Inside of every problem lies an opportunity. Robert Kiyosaki
• Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities. Ralph Marston
• Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together. Robert South
• All problems contain the seeds of opportunity, and this awareness allows you to take the moment and transform it to a better situation or thing. Deepak Chopra
• Every single problem that you have in your life is the seed of an opportunity for some greater benefit. Once you have that perception, you open up to a whole range of possibilities — and this keeps the mystery, the wonder, the excitement, the adventure alive. Deepak Chopra
• I also know that every problem is an opportunity in disguise, and this alertness to opportunities allows me to take this moment and transform it into a greater benefit. Deepak Chopra
• Instead of using the word “problem”, try substituting the word “opportunity.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday. Peter F. Drucker
• Recognize all problems, no matter how difficult, as opportunities for spiritual growth, and make the most of these opportunities. Mildred Norman
• The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity. Michael Wickett
• Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem a turned it into an opportunity. Joseph Sugarman
• Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth. Nido Qubein
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There is opportunity in failure

• Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Henry Ford
• Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. Roger von Oech
• Everyone fails. But that doesn’t mean you must identify yourself as a failure. Failure applies to a situation, a particular time and place. If you don’t let it devastate you, failure can be an opportunity: for learning, for recovery, for the creation and demonstration of character. No one wins all the time. Learn to take your losses, learn from them if possible, and move on. Gary Ryan Blair
• Reframe your setbacks as signals for change and the opportunity to improve. What would happen if you replaced the concept of failure with that of opportunity? Devora Zack
• Thinking “I failed” is a copout! It lets you off the hook. Game over, dude. I am not about to let you off so easily. Reframe your setbacks as signals for change and the opportunity to improve. This method of thinking requires a lot more energy than “I blew it.” Instead, explode your limiting mindset. What would happen if you replaced the concept of failure with that of opportunity? Devora Zack
• Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford
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There is opportunity in our mistakes

• There are no mistakes, only opportunities. Tina Fey
• If you are not making many errors, you might ask yourself “How many opportunities am I missing by not being more aggressive?” Roger von Oech
• A mistake is an opportunity for a second take.
• Self- forgiveness is not abdicating responsibility. It is seeing mistakes as opportunities for learning rather than as personal failure. Tracy Ochester
• I believe that no matter how many mistakes we’ve made; how badly we’ve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected we’ve become; as long as there is true, steadfast ambition, all of us have an opportunity for greatness. Dave Pelzer
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There is opportunity in criticism

• Dealing with criticism can offer an opportunity to learn. If at all possible, accept the feedback as a gift. It’ll motivate you to do better, change your ways, adjust your communication – or whatever it is that you need to do. Elly Prior
• Any criticism you receive is an opportunity to look inside and see what comes up. Graeme Myburgh
• The Sufi poet Rumi wrote, “Your criticism polishes my mirror.” If you understand who you are and respect yourself, you will not see criticism as a problem but as an opportunity to become a better person.  Bernie Siegel
• While criticism can be taken as hurtful and demoralizing, it can also be viewed in a positive way: it is honesty, and it can spur us to do better. It’s an opportunity to improve. Leo Babauta
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There is opportunity in differences

• Differences are an opportunity, not an obstacle. The key is to remain open to hearing ideas so you can determine which ideas to combine to spark a better solution. Stephen Covey
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There is opportunity in old age

• Age is opportunity no less, than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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No matter how bad things are, there is always the opportunity to make a fresh start

• When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose; what a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page. Eileen Caddy
• Each moment is an opportunity to make a fresh start. Pema Chodron
• When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. Alexander Graham Bell
• When you feel like you’ve come to the end, what a great opportunity for something new to emerge.
• It’s never too late to make a fresh start

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Luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it

• I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it… The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. Samuel Goldwyn
• Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work–and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t. Lucille Ball
• Ability is of little account without opportunity. Napoleon
• Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity. François de la Rochefoucauld
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Luck happens where preparation meets opportunity

• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Seneca
• Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Neil Peart
• Good luck is opportunity meeting preparedness. Deepak Chopra
• The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli
• Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning. Thomas Alva Edison
• I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. Oprah Winfrey
• Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. Oprah Winfrey
• Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer.
• Success always comes when preparation meets opportunity. Henry Hartman
• The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. Tony Robbins
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Therefore, prepare yourself to be ready when opportunity knocks

• All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. Sidney Lumet
• Be ready when opportunity comes…Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet. Roy D. Chapin Jr.
• I will prepare and some day my chance will come. Abraham Lincoln
• It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. Whitney M. Young, Jr.
• It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready. Theodore Roosevelt
• Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability…. We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation. Thomas A. Edison
• You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation. Roger Maris
• Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it’s too late. Rita Coolidge
• Be prepared, act promptly, in scale, on a few major opportunities. Charlie Munger
• Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is simple fidelity to watch what each day brings. Albert E. Dunning
• Opportunity can benefit no people who have not fitted themselves to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy.  Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way.  It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain. B.C. Forbes
• What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. Charles Victor Cherbuliez
• Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. Emily Dickinson

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Be patient but remain on guard

• Be super patient but fully prepared to pounce when a big opportunity arises.
• Patience is neither weariness nor dreary surrender. It is a positive virtue, the capacity to wait for opportunity…. Edward J. Lavin

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Seize opportunity before it slips away

• He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. William James
• If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade. Tom Peters
• Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone. Thomas Jones
• The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Gloria Estefan
• Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. Bulgarian Proverb
• Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying. Robert Herrick
• The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities. Chinese Proverbs
• Opportunity only knocks once. Proverb
• Opportunities multiply as they are seized. Lao Tzu
• Opportunity is a bird that never perches. Claude McDonald
• Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs. Silius Italicus
• Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them. Audrey Hepburn
• Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die… Still you wait and will not try – A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly. A. Milne
• You only get this one blessed opportunity to make the effort to do your best. And then it’s over. No second chance. John Wooden
• Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. Benjamin Disraeli

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To often we let opportunities slip by

• People do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone. T. Jones

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Letting opportunities slip by can end in great regret …

• The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity. Helen Rowland
• Your regrets aren’t what you did, but what you didn’t do. So I take every opportunity. Cameron Diaz
• No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused. Charles Dickens
• Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. Haruki Murakami
• Go to the effort. Invest the time. Write the letter. Make the apology. Take the trip. Purchase the gift. Do it. The seized opportunity renders joy. The neglected brings regret. Max L. Lucado
• Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit. Rafael Sabatini
• Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities. Susan Rice
• Opportunity is a favourable occasion for grasping a disappointment. Ambrose Bierce
• Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
• Nothing is so irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
• Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss.
• Over time, the hurt doesn’t hurt. Only regret does. Terri Guillemets
• Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken. Robert Brault
• When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break. William Hale White
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… and wallowing in that regret can make us miss new opportunities as they arise

• Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. Jerome K. Jerome
• When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. Alexander Graham Bell

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Welcome every opportunity to make people happy …

• The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy. Booker T. Washington
• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. it’s overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt. Leo Buscaglia

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… to be kind and loving …

• Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness. Seneca
• Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love. Thérèse de Lisieux
• Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference. John Wooden
• If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love’s reach. Margaret Cho
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… to affirm and encourage …

• We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. George M. Adams
• Our work-a-day lives are filled with opportunities to bless others. The power of a single glance or an encouraging smile must never be underestimated. Richard Rieger
• Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that one never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.  George M. Adams
• Never pass up an opportunity to speak a kind word of appreciation. There are six billion people on the planet, and 5.9 billion of them go to bed every night starving for one honest word of appreciation. Matthew Kelly
• From morning until night, couples have the opportunity to offer words of affirmation, appreciation and adoration to one another as well as the chance to offer nonverbal cues as well. Nonverbal cues are anything from a wink to a kiss to a smile. Jeffrey Sumber
• Do not let a moment go by in which you have an opportunity to tell someone how magnificent they are. Give people the gift of self-esteem, and you will have given them a gift that many cannot find a way to give themselves. Neale Donald Walsch
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… to serve and help others

• When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek. Steve Maraboli
• The opportunity of life is to serve. William Arthur Ward
• Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking “What’s in it for me?”  Brian Tracy
• Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. Sally Koch
• Service,  Contribution,  Giving,  Helpfulness

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Welcome every opportunity to see beauty

• Never lose an opportunity for seeing something beautiful for beauty is God’s handwriting. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Welcome every opportunity to put things right

• You couldn’t erase the past. You couldn’t even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right. Ann Brashares
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Welcome every opportunity to do what you love

• There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. Wayne Dyer
• Somebody said you have to love what you do, but that’s not necessarily true. What is true is that you have to love the opportunity. The opportunity to build life, future, health, success and fortune.  Knocking on someone’s door or making that extra call may not be something you love to do, but you love the opportunity of what might be behind that door or call. Jim Rohn
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Welcome every opportunity to develop your talents and strengths

• Across the board, having the opportunity to develop our strengths is more important to our success than our role, our title, or even our pay. Tom Rath
• Alleged “impossibilities” are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched. Charles R. Swindoll
• Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day? Chances are you don’t. All too often our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths. Tom Rath
• Make a deliberate attempt to look for opportunities that can help improve your confidence. For instance, if you are particularly good at doing something, set aside more time to indulge and improve your skills on it. Knowing that you have particular gifts can boost your self esteem. Evelyn Lim
• Our opportunities to do good are our talents. Cotton Mather
• Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. Doris Lessing
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Welcome every opportunity to find stillness and calmness

• As we manage the hustle and bustle of our busy lives, finding opportunities to quietly be with ourselves may help us tend to the details of what we value most. Jenny Doh
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Welcome every opportunity to let go

• Every breath is an opportunity to receive and let go. Brenda MacIntyre
• Every breath is an opportunity to receive and let go. I receive love and I let go of pain. Brenda MacIntyre
• Every movement I make is an opportunity to let go and release. Graeme Myburgh
• Every out breath is an opportunity to let go and relax. Joan Borysenko
• Letting go,  Transcendence

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Welcome every opportunity for renewal and rest

• Just remember that every day provides a new opportunity for renewal—a new opportunity to recharge yourself instead of hitting the wall. All it takes is the desire, knowledge, and skill. Stephen Covey
• Spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. Susan Taylor
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Welcome every opportunity to be creative and innovative

• Every day is an opportunity to be creative – the canvas is your mind, the brushes and colours are your thoughts and feelings, the panorama is your story, the complete picture is a work of art called, ‘my life’. Be careful what you put on the canvas of your mind today – it matters. Innerspace
• The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams. Arthur Porter
• Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze. Peter Drucker
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Welcome every opportunity to learn and grow

• Every moment in the earth school offers you important opportunities to learn about yourself. Those things have to do with your soul. The Earth school operates with exquisite perfection and efficiency whether you are aware of it or not. Gary Zukav
• Every situation, every moment, provides the opportunity for self-growth and development of your character. David Reynolds
• Each experience provides a challenge and an opportunity to expand your comfort zone. The way to create an extraordinary life is to make the challenge of fear work for you by building your courage muscles.  Cheryl Richardson
• If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later! Richard Branson
• Never neglect an opportunity for improvement. Sir William Jones
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Welcome every opportunity to choose love over fear

• I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear. Oprah Winfrey
• Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way. Bernie Siegel
• The crisis, as well as the opportunity, of our time is to surrender our ego and conditioned fear mechanisms to the primary torsion energy of unconditional love that is seeking to evolve us and is calling us as a species home. Sol Luckman
• Love,  Fear,  Choice

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Welcome every opportunity to be present and mindful

• If you can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, you can be present with it. It is of the present moment, and so it brings to you the opportunity to be present with it. Leonard Jacobson
• If mindfulness is deeply important to you, then every moment is an opportunity to practice. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken. Ram Dass
• In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you cook, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you clean the floor, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. Shunryu Suzuki
• Every mundane activity is an opportunity for full, authentic self-exploration. The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater.  Gabrielle Roth
• Meditation gives you an opportunity to come to know your invisible self. It allows you to empty yourself of the endless hyperactivity of your mind, and to attain calmness. Wayne Dyer
• Mindfulness,  Presence

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Welcome every opportunity to be thankful

• If you don’t regularly acknowledge the bounty of your life, you’re simply missing a great opportunity to gently and graciously add immense value to the quality of living. Brad Swift
• Important gifts and great opportunities are wasted when I am unable to view them with the acknowledgement that they deserve. Eleesha
• There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way. Jim Rohn
• Gratitude,  Appreciation

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Welcome every opportunity to be virtuous

• Every temptation is an opportunity to triumph over evil. Marc Williams
• Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises, being assured that they will gain strength by exercise, as a limb of the body does, and that exercise will make them habitual. Thomas Jefferson
• Virtue,  Goodness

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Welcome every opportunity to open opportunities for others

• In a word, if we want security, let us give security. If we want life, let us give life. If we want opportunities, let us provide opportunities. The yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us. Pope Francis
• There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman! No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest. Samuel Gompers
• It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity. Arthur Vandenberg
• It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute. William Pollard
• Helpfulness,  Making a difference

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Welcome every opportunity to look for new ways of thinking

• And we’re seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are. Neale Donald Walsch
• Open-mindedness,  Explore new ideas

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Welcome every opportunity to celebrate your personal power

• Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, ‘Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.’ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Welcome every opportunity to discover and experience who you are

• People relying on others or someone to complete them are delaying the opportunity to discover the person they are meant to be. Dodinsky
• I have sent you nothing but angels and miracles. See the perfection in this moment. Your soul chose your life to create the opportunity to fulfill your soul’s agenda. You are, every moment, drawing to yourself the exact and perfect peope, places and events to experience exactly what you came to your physical body to experience. Neale Donald Walsch
• Discovery,  Exploration

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1.  Playing it too safe

• The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. Brian Tracy
• There is no security on this Earth; there is only opportunity. Douglas MacArthur
• Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk. Shirley Hufstedler
• Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life then of death. James F. Byrnes
• Security isn’t what the wise person looks for; it’s opportunity. And once we begin looking for that, we find it on every side.  You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved.  They go together. Earl Nightingale
• Caution,  Security,   Comfort,  Risk taking,  Boldness

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2.  Self pity

• You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way. Og Mandino
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3.  Self doubt

• Opportunity is always knocking. The problem is that most people have the self-doubt station in their heads turned up way too loud to hear it. Brian Vaszily
• Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin. Kiam Victor
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4.   Arriving too late

• Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces. Niccolo Machiavelli

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5.   Close mindedness

• The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person. Bo Bennett
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6.   Laziness

• Laziness begets nothing but failures and lost opportunities. Rig Veda
• Laziness erodes a person of his enthusiasm and energy. As a result the person loses all opportunities and finally becomes dejected and frustrated. The worst thing is that he stops believing in himself. Sam Veda
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7.   Negativity

• The pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Reginald B. Mansell
• The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill
• A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Harry Truman
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• A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. Oscar Wilde
• A window of opportunity for me usually involves a rock. Jay London
• Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. Mark Twain
• Date: A opportunity to find out why another person is still single.
• Definition of a bachelor: A man who has missed the opportunity to make some woman miserable.
• Do not mistake temptation for opportunity. Fortune cookie
• The door to opportunity is always labeled ‘push’.
• If opportunity came disguised as temptation, one knock would be enough. Lane Olinghouse
• Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut. Winston Churchill
• Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
• Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. George Bernard Shaw
• Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock. Woody Allen
• My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had so he sent me to a girls school. Daniel Tosh
• Opportunist: Someone who sees the opportunity in every catastrophe; a pessimist is someone who sees the catastrophe in every opportunity.
• Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
• Opportunity is always knocking. The problem is that most people have the self-doubt station in their heads turned up way too loud to hear it. Brian Vaszily
• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Alva Edison
• Opportunity knocks for every man but you have to give a woman a ring. Mae West
• Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. Ambrose Bierce
• Pessimist: Somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
• Problems: Opportunities in work clothes.   Henry J Kaiser
• Revolutionary: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.
• She had an unequaled gift of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. Henry James
• Sometimes opportunity knocks but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away. Doug Larson
• The reason most people do not recognize an opportunity when they meet it is because it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like Hard Work.
• Virtue: Lack of opportunity.
• We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. Walt Kelly
• When opportunity knocks, I normally have the music turned up way to loud to hear it.
• When the opportunity finally knocked on his front door, he was out in the back yard looking for four- leaved clovers.

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